Author: H2OBlog

An army of firefighters deployed this summer to fight blazes across California. Many of the larger fires take more than just hand crews on the ground and air tankers dropping retardant or water from the sky to help put out a blaze. Now, a new tool is being used to detect how fires grow from… Read More

“The network”, as I [John Fleck] call the Colorado River governance structure in my book, is gathering this week in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to among other things celebrate the signing of a new agreement extending the agreement between the United States and Mexico over water sharing and allocation on the Colorado River. View Original… Read More

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today [Sept. 21] announced that $94.3 million will be distributed for outdoor recreation and conservation projects to the 50 states, U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which is funded through offshore oil and gas leasing. These funds are awarded… Read More

Mountain meadows are starting to get some respect. For over a century, meadows were the first alpine environments targeted for development, grazing and farming, because they tend to be flat and packed with rich soil and nutritious plants. But we’re starting to understand that meadows have a much more important role to play for society… Read More

Several hundred people who live in low-lying areas along the Guajataca Dam, about 60 miles west of San Juan, abandoned their homes Friday and Saturday, days after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. Cracks in the dam, officials said, had put surrounding areas in peril. View Original Article Source: California Water News feed… Read More

This year’s “Paddle for Clean Water” was also a fund raiser to help the foundation launch a new Blue Water Task Force, which will test water at all local beaches each Thursday and then post the results each Friday morning. View Original Article Source: California Water News feed… Read More

After big natural disasters like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, federal officials often tighten up flood protection standards. That’s what happened in California after Hurricane Katrina twelve years ago. But many flood-prone communities are still struggling to meet those standards, including Sacramento, one of the riskiest flood zones in the country. View Original Article Source: California… Read More

I [Dan Walters] first heard the term “peripheral canal” more than 40 years ago, during a forum of state water officials in Stockton. It came from the lips of William Gianelli, who had returned to his birthplace to tout a canal to carry Sacramento River water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the head of… Read More

California consumers will soon have two choices in cannabis: clean, legal and pricey — or dirty, illicit and cheap. Think Whole Foods vs. El Chapo. The big difference will be the amount of pesticides in your weed. View Original Article Source: California Water News feed… Read More

Inside a warehouse in an industrial part of downtown Los Angeles, where rats can be as big as seagulls, the one thing standing between some aggressive rodents and a lucrative crop of cannabis is Ghost, a 2-year-old black and white cat. What, no rat poison? View Original Article Source: California Water News feed… Read More